Randall Munroe is the author of the popular webcomic xkcd and the science question-and-answer blog What If. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006, he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full-time, supporting himself through the sale of xkcd t-shirts, prints, posters, and books. He likes candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach. Very long walks. Lots of people say they like long walks on the beach, but then they get out on the beach and after just an hour or two, they say they're getting tired. Bring a tent. He lives in Massachusetts.
发表于2025-02-04
What If? 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
主要内容 这本书提出了很多那些古怪又让人忧心的问题,并且做出了一定的回答。因为都是围绕者问题去写,所以每个问题自成体系,很难做出一个提纲挈领的概括或者主题。虽说这些问题有些荒诞,但是能提出这些问题就很棒,拥有无尽的想象。 异想天开 在我小的时候,中央一有一个由...
评分一些無厘頭的問題,用科學與幽默的方式來回答,坦白說,讀完會有些收穫,卻又不怎麼營養,也不見得完全正確。它令我想到另一本經濟類別書籍 ~【親愛的臥底經濟學家】,幽默居多,實用其次,正確與否,就別計較。重要的是,在莞爾一笑外,啟發些思索。
评分默默的给五星 感受如下 一是这些提问问题的人脑洞为什么这么大书中罗列的那些五花八门 奇奇怪怪的问题 充斥着各种不切实际 异想天开 甚至有可能造成人类灭绝 地球消亡 宇宙崩塌 这些问题幽默 搞笑 却又耐人思考 可能以现在人类的能力无法完成实现 只会引人发笑 但是 凡尓纳写鹦...
评分为大家推荐这本好书《 那些古怪又让人忧心的问题 》人类不仅爱讲故事,还爱胡思乱想,正是有了这些胡思乱想的人,世界才诞生了一种能推动整个人类发展的职业:"科学家" (of阔斯)这个胡思乱想是正儿八经,一本正经的胡思乱想! 牛顿对苹果的胡思乱想才诞生了力学! 爱因斯坦对...
评分为大家推荐这本好书《 那些古怪又让人忧心的问题 》人类不仅爱讲故事,还爱胡思乱想,正是有了这些胡思乱想的人,世界才诞生了一种能推动整个人类发展的职业:"科学家" (of阔斯)这个胡思乱想是正儿八经,一本正经的胡思乱想! 牛顿对苹果的胡思乱想才诞生了力学! 爱因斯坦对...
图书标签: 科普 长知识 英文原版 2016
From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans’ strangest questions.
The queries he receives range from merely odd to downright diabolical:
• What if I took a swim in a spent-nuclear-fuel pool?
• Could you build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns?
• What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit New York City?
• Are fire tornadoes possible?
His responses are masterpieces of clarity and wit, gleefully and accurately explaining everything from the relativistic effects of a baseball pitched at near the speed of light to the many horrible ways you could die while building a periodic table out of all the actual elements.
The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? is an informative feast for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.
还行吧,作者有点刻意卖弄的感觉
评分还行吧,作者有点刻意卖弄的感觉
评分5月20日下的单,啃到前天才读完。不是特别吸引人,毕竟是科普没有剧情,但作者已经写得非常有趣,漫画的幽默总是让人会心一笑。英文版看不懂的地方有不少,很多词词典查不到,有些幽默的部分和提到人名地名的部分,由于文化差异很难有共鸣。选择回答的问题可能大多适合美国人脑洞大开的口味,我个人的话看完之后受到震撼留下印象的信息很少。感觉这本书对综合知识和数理基础深厚的或者科学从业者来说会更有启发和趣味。
评分还行吧,作者有点刻意卖弄的感觉
评分还行吧,作者有点刻意卖弄的感觉
What If? 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书